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Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Beach, Horace
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Description area
Dates of existence
1919-2008
History
Horace Dougald Beach was born on 12 March 1919 near Ernfold, Saskatchewan, and attended the University of Saskatchewan for two years prior to joining the Canadian armed forces. Following the war, he spent one year at the University of Edinburgh before returning to Canada and resuming his studies at the University of Saskatchewan. He was a Rhodes scholar. He worked in Newfoundland; and was director of counseling centers at Dalhousie University and later, at the University of Victoria. He died in Saskatoon on 2 October 2008.